i've been unable to use mplayer as my main video player in puppy, due to audio and video going out of sync. i found the problem is more pronounced on higher bitrate files, but can manifest itself even on lower bitrate stuff. And so i've always installed and used vlc as my main player as it works.

Thanks for the fix but it didn't work for me. By the way, my config file is empty, so I added mc=0 on the top.It seems that my problem is elswere since the video slightly stucks from time to time, so that the audio stream is always ahead.

for key comands or option and stuff run mplayer --help in terminal.
you will have to mess with the options for better playback for you pc but i have been able to watch 720p hd content on my old netbook and on my moms even older P3.

I have an old Toshiba plll 800MHz 320MB. My son-in-law sends me video of my grandchildren sent from an iPhone4. They show up as mp4 but I am not sure of the resolution. They have always run on mplayer with the video running slowly and behind the sound which runs at the correct speed. However, have just tried your code. It makes a big difference with the video just behind the sound though hardly noticeable. I am using lupu 528 with the appropriate video driver. I used your code to make a little script and made it executable with a desktop icon. Now all I do is drag the video file onto the desktop icon and it plays. I am no expert on this and there might be a better way but here's what I used.

The driver that was recommended for this was the xorg_high-1.1-lucid which is what I have installed. I hope this is the info your looking for. I tried both your suggestions. The first seemed to bring up the first frame of the video but did not play the rest. Sound was OK. The second played both sound and video in better sync although video might have been a little jerkier but still useable.

I have lazy, lupu, slacko and precise all frugal and xp (rarly used) booting with grub. I have had similar problems with pups and mplayer playing this form of video. I also use vlc but it performs less well with this. I had just assumed it was due to the limits of my hardware. I have not tried wary but will give it a go.

Hi,
- playing a .mp4 music solfege lesson (downloaded from you tube using You2pup) resulted in a dramatic out of sync between images and «metronomic tap» sounds.
Here is what itried:
- converting that .mp4 file to .AVI (using ffmpeg) helped to recover the sync. Now just clicking on the AVI file and mplayer runs it OK. (This seems to me the most straightforward solution with minimal lost of time for maximum result).
last edited: But...it worked only on one tested file. Further downloaded mp4 files are still out of sync after avi conversion.
This did not helped either:
- applying forum member scabz's (thankx!) 1st post above + applying mplayers various audio/video bitrates manuals settings did not help.
Hope this helps
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